Unobserved Fires and the Law of Armed Conflict

Unobserved Fires and the Law of Armed Conflict

Unobserved Fires and the Law of Armed Conflict The United States and Australia have both embraced the concept of “multi-domain strike,” which the United States describes, in a veritable missile salvo of buzzwords, as the “capability to strike in depth with lethal and...
Dutch Judgment on IHL Compliance in Chora District, Afghanistan

Dutch Judgment on IHL Compliance in Chora District, Afghanistan

Dutch Judgment on IHL Compliance in Chora District, Afghanistan On 23 November 2022, the district court of the Hague handed down its judgment in a case brought against the State of the Netherlands by relatives of persons killed during fighting in the Chora district,...
Responsible AI Symposium – Legal Implications of Bias Mitigation

Responsible AI Symposium – Legal Implications of Bias Mitigation

Responsible AI Symposium – Legal Implications of Bias Mitigation Editor’s note: The following post highlights a subject addressed at an expert workshop conducted by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy focusing on Responsible AI. For a general introduction to this...
Proportionality in International Humanitarian Law: A Principle and a Rule

Proportionality in International Humanitarian Law: A Principle and a Rule

Proportionality in International Humanitarian Law: A Principle and a Rule This post is based on research supporting a doctoral dissertation in progress at the University of Geneva. Proportionality plays a key role in international humanitarian law (IHL). It is...
Targeting Dual-Use Structures: An Alternative Interpretation

Targeting Dual-Use Structures: An Alternative Interpretation

Targeting Dual-Use Structures: An Alternative Interpretation   ​In a recent Articles of War piece, I discussed protection of the media under international humanitarian law, a topic that had come to the fore when the Israel Defense Force (IDF) attacked the...